More non pricklies

cactuspolecat · Post by **cactuspolecat** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:31 am

I'm getting quite a few of these now, 20 plants covering about twelve species including a number of unknowns ...I don't know what's coming over me... I'm going to have to go out now and buy a new Mamm or two. to settle things down a little!

Haworthia "Grey Ghost", after being given a small pup of one of these a couple of weeks ago, I found this one last weekend, it begged me to remove it from the cold impersonal nursery shelf, part with a few bucks and drive it home... and since it begged so nicely...

I just had to get a couple of its friends while I was there...
H. minima var minima,

and H. mutica var? otzeniana.

Whew! I gotta go and pet one of my Mamms now.

CP

Dominique · Post by **Dominique** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:31 pm

Well, they are so beautiful that I guess they did not have to beg you too hard

Your grey ghost is a beauty

templegatejohn · Post by **templegatejohn** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:14 pm

Lovely plants CP, and nice photographs too.

John

hob · Post by **hob** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:39 pm

i know nothing about succulents ......but i have seen similar plants in UK nurseries advertised as "alpines" for planting out in the garden.....are they the same type of thing ???

Dominique · Post by **Dominique** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:30 pm

Hob, Haworthia won't take much frost and it is even advised to keep them between 5 and 10°C at winter. But there are other succulents, like some sedum or sempervivum which are frost hardy.

nachtkrabb · Post by **nachtkrabb** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:06 pm

Hallo, CP,
your Hawortias are real nice - bet you didn't struggle tooooo long before taking them in.
One question concerning the last pic: this looks pretty similar to H.cymbiformis to me...? Are they really that alike?
Ruth

cactuspolecat · Post by **cactuspolecat** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:14 am

Hob, I'd wouldn't plant these outdoors here, but H. fasciata is pretty hardy, it survives outdoors here okay. Mine spend their winter in the g/h, (unheated).

Ruth, I was never happy with the name on the tag the third one, and have fount the name should be otzenii not otzeniana, however my plant doese not fit with htis species either, since posting this pice I have had someone else ID it as a form of Haworthia turgida... and with further checking I decided it fit best with the ID H. turgida var. suberecta.
Thanks for your suggestion of cymbiformis, I think you've helped me ID another that I haven't posted yet!

Cheers, CP.